Mu clubs being hard stepped has the 3 iron will become 4 iron length, 4 iron will become 5 iron length and so on. When you hard step, the club lengths will decrease, however, as far as the specs goes, the lengths are still the same for standard and hard stepped clubs (I measured mine). My length for a 7 iron is 37" the standard length is 37". If the 8 iron shaft is supposed to be in the 7 iron and the 8 iron shaft is 36.5", where does the extra 1/2" in the 7 iron come from?